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The Outdoor Living Blog

Bahler Brothers Blog

This blog addresses many of the questions, issues and design options for paver and wall installations.

Brad Wiegand

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Outdoor Living  |  Pavers

What kind of Return on Investment can I get from my Outdoor Space?

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Outdoor Living

20 Outdoor Rooms with Entertaining Flair

20 Outdoor Rooms With Entertaining Flair

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Contractor Comparison Worksheet

Contractor Comparison Worksheet

Take the frustration out of comparing bids from different landscape contractors with our Contractor Comparison Checklist

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Decks  |  Outdoor Living  |  Transformation

Can I replace my deck with a patio?

My deck is falling apart, and I don't know what to do with it! Can I replace my deck with a patio? This question is posed to me quite often. The short answer is: most times. While most decks can simply be removed and a patio installed in its place, we need to step back and examine the project as a whole. A couple of questions that you may want to ask yourself are:

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Retaining Wall Cost  |  Retaining Walls

How much do Retaining Walls Cost?

One of the first questions potential customers want to know when they call our company is : How much does a retaining wall cost? Although this is a very difficult question to answer over the phone, I will try to do my best here to explain some general pricing guidelines.

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Outdoor Living  |  Water Feature  |  Water Garden

Imagine the Water Garden Dream

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it... -William Ward Imagination is one of the most powerful tools that has ever been given to mankind. If Thomas Edison had no imagination, we could still be living without electric lights, or microphones, or megaphones, or... The greastest thing about imagination is that it can become a dream, and dreams can be shared. When a person has a dream they have two choices, to share, or not to share their particular dream.

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Outdoor Living  |  Ponds  |  Water Feature

What is Aquascaping?

Wikipedia defines aquascaping as "the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner..." This holds true in the aquarium world as well as in the water feature world. Since I am not very well versed in the aquarium world, we'll just stick to the outdoor water feature industry. So in layman's terms, what is aquascaping? My definition of aquascaping is: using water gardening to fill a void in someone's life that they didn't know existed.

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